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单词 wadmal
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wadmaln.

/ˈwɒdməl/
Forms: α. Middle English, 1500s, 1600s wadmoll, Middle English, 1500s wadmale, Middle English, 1500s, 1700s wadmole, (Middle English warde-), Middle English, 1600s waddemole, (1500s watmol, 1600s wadmol, wadnall), 1500s wodmell, 1500s, 1600s wadmell, 1800s wadmel, 1600s, 1800s wadmall, 1800s wadmaal, wadmail, 1600s, 1800s dialect wadmeal, 1700s wadmiel, 1800s wadmil, Middle English, 1700s, 1800s wadmal. β. Middle English, 1500s wedmole, 1500s wedmell ( wedmoll), (1600s wedmeill, wednel). γ. 1500s, 1600s woodmal(e, 1600s, 1800s dialect woadmell (1600s -mal, woddenell, 1700s woodmeil), 1800s dialect woodmail. δ. 1700s corruptly wadmus. Also vadmal n.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse vaðmál.
Etymology: < Old Norse vaðmál (Norwegian vadmaal , with many dialect variants; Middle Swedish vaþmal , -maal , Swedish vadmal , Danish vadmel ) believed to represent an earlier *váðmál , < váð cloth (= Old English wǽd weed n.2) + mál measure.
A kind of woollen cloth.
a. In England, a coarse woollen material used principally for covering horse-collars, and other rough purposes; also (esp. in the s.-w.) for petticoats, mittens, etc. Obsolete except in wadmiltilt (see Compounds 1).In the 16–17th centuries mentioned as manufactured in Wales and at Witney (Oxon).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > wadmal
wadmal1392
1392 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 158 Pro iiijxx viij vergis wadmoll ad ij d. ob. pro saccis.
1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 395 Item j pannus de wadmale pro rebus cariandis.
1423 in Rolls Parl. IV. 241 Item, 111 peces de Wadmole rouge, contenantz xx alnas di., pris. v s.
1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1695) 574 In v. virgatis de Waddemole emptis pro coleris equinis..ii sol. i den.
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 [Imports from Spain] Iren, wolle, wadmole, gotefel, kydefel also.
1485 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 383 Et in solutis pro le Wedmole ad cooperiendum coleres equorum xvjd.
1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 81 For dyeng of cclxxij yerdes of wardemole blewe and murrey for the Quenes barge.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxv. 274 b Many had no armure, but their cootes of wadmoll [Fr. de gros bureaulx].
c1580 Direction for divers trades of marchaundize in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) XXIX. 516 Item, for all the partes of Galicia..flaninge and wedmoles of Wales.
1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 286 A market house for the sale of woolen bayes, Watmols, Flanels, and such like.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 Which is that you call a Tilt couered with wadmall in your Wherries.
1662 Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II, c. 8 Bk. Rates Mittins of Wadmol the dozen pair, 00 09 00.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 279 Of their worst [tail wool] they make Wednel [at Witney] for Collar~makers.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. Waddemole, now called Woadmel, and in Oxfordshire Woddenell, a course sort of stuff us'd for the covering of the collars of cart-horses.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Sept. (1744) 119 Sedge Collars [for plough-horses] are by much the lightest and coolest, indeed not so comely as those of Wadmus, but will serve a good Team well enough.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 291 Wadmole alias Wadding, 830 Yards.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 189 Woodmeil, a hairy coarse Stuff made of Island Wool, and supplied to the Carpenters of Ships..for lining of Ports, &c.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Wadmal, a very coarse and thick kind of woollen manufacture.
b. In Scotland, a woollen fabric woven in Orkney and Shetland. Now historical.Down to the 17th cent. the taxes of Orkney and Shetland were paid in wadmal and other commodities.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > from specific place
staminc1440
Florence1483
Taunton1499
bridgwaterc1503
tostocke1511
Tavistock1535
drab1541
Dunster1546
wadmal1572
pinwhite1604
Drap-de-Berry1619
cantaloon1711
West of England1840
Spanish stripes1875
1572 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1575, 642/2 (Zetland) 12 den. pro qualibet ulna sive cuttella 24 cuttellarum panni lanei, vulgo wadmell.
1577 in D. Balfour Oppress. 16th Cent. Orkney & Zetland (1859) 18 Thair clayth, callit Wadmell, quhilk is ane dewitie thai pay to the Kingis Majestie..zeirlie.
1654 Blaeu's Atlas, Scotia 148 Pannus quidam ipsis [Hethlandicis] est crassa ex lana confectus, patrio idiomate τὸ Wadmeal dictum.
1774 E. Gifford in G. Low's Orkney, etc. (1879) 143 Payment to the Crown was called Scatt, which was paid in butter, oil, and a sort of very coarse cloth called Wadmiel.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 118 Her upper garment..was of a coarse dark-coloured stuff, called Wadmaral, then much used in the Zetland islands, as also in Iceland and Norway.
1884 C. J. G. Rampini in Good Words Nov. 746/1 All the women..in scarlet petticoats of Shetland ‘wadmal’.
c. A woollen fabric worn by country people in Scandinavia and Iceland. Sometimes in modern Swedish or Danish form: see vadmal n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > for clothing
puke1465
russel1488
capping-woollen1555
wadmalc1682
forest-cloth1769
vadmal1851
Petersham cloth1853
Victoria1891
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 84 The general Employment of the People [in Iceland] is either Fishery or the making of Wadmoll, which is a course sort of woollen Cloth, made of their Sheepes Wool.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 10 (Iceland) They likewise manufacture a coarse kind of cloth, which they call wadmal.
1845 C. H. J. Anderson Swedish Brothers 114 The scarlet kerchiefs, mingling with the bluish-grey of the wad-meal or striped tartan.
1894 Field 1 Dec. 838/1 No day is too long..for poor old Niels in his one garment of coarse wadmal.

Compounds

C1. attributive or quasi-adj. chiefly in sense ‘made of wadmal’.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [adjective] > coarse
wadmal1522
kersey1577
minikin1604
green baize1758
hodden-clad1812
1522 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 154 A wodmell slope and a pare of breche of the same.
1541 Will J. Norman (Som. House) My dau. Margerie one wedmole petycote.
1544 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 206 Ane schip of fyr..with hir hale salis of wadmale claith.
1598 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 367/1 Malcolme..to have the wedmell dett thairof becaus he wantit the samin at his entrie.
a1700 in Alice M. Earle Costume Colon. Times (1894) 253 Wadmoll mittens..a woadmell petticoat.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. x. 234 Her dark wadmaal cloak.
C2.
wadmiltilt n. (see quot. 1898 and cf. quot. 1627 at sense a).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile > tarpaulin
tarpaulin1607
wadmiltilt1828
paulin1859
tar-cloth1899
tarp1906
1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 23 Wadmiltilts.
1898 Viscount Dillon in Archæol. Jrnl. 2nd Ser. 5 296 (note) In artillery inventories of to-day will be found wadmiltilts, a kind of tarpaulin covering for stores.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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